Target



Sep@ I, 1931. A. R. s'rowELl.

TARGET Filed NOV. 28, 1950 @H10/uma;

Patented Sept, 1, 1931 STATES ARTHUR R. STOWELL, F GREENWOOD, MAINE,

TARGET Application filed November 28, 1930. Serial No.g498,846.

This invention relates to targets for practicing marksmanship, and it has for its oblject the provision of a disk or similar body having an impaling point by which it may be stuck to a wall or fence, and which when hit will fracture, the impaling point being of such inconsiderable length that it will be jarred out of the wall when the target is struck, falling with' the piece of target in which it may be iixed, so that the wall is completely cleared of the dbris of the shattered target.

Another object of the invention is to provide a headless pin for the target so that there is no metallic surface from which a glance shot may ricochet nor is there more than an infinitesimal chance of the pin being driven into the wall by the impact of the shot. y

A further obj ect of the invention is to provide a target in which the pin extends only part way through the thickness of the target, so as to protect the pin from being directly hit the further to ensure that the pin shall not be driven into the wall but that the target shall lirst be broken and the pin fall with the pieces.

Other objects of the invention will appear as the following description of practical embodiments thereof proceeds.

In the drawings in which the same characters of reference have been used throughout the several figures to designate identical parts,

Figure 1 is a perspective view illustrating the use of the target;

Figure 2 is a back View of one form of target;

Figure 3 is a cross section taken along the line 3-3 of Figure 2;

Figure 4 is a back view of a modied form of target; and

Figure 5 is an edge view, partly in elevation and partly in section to show the embodiment of the pin.

Referring now in detail to `the several ligures, and first adverting to that form of the invention shown in Figures 2 and 3, the numeral 1 represents the disk which may be made of any suitable' frangible material. It

kly failto remain in the body into which it` is thrust. rI he target is designed to be stuck to a suitable vertical'surface such as a wall or a. wooden fence. The projecting portion 3 of the pin 2 is of such inconsiderable length as to ensure that the piece to which the pin is fixed will drop off of the@ wall carrying with it the pin when the target is shattered by a bullet.

The pin 2 is headless so that it will not present a flat hard surface against which a bullet might ricochet. The pin 2 e'tXtends only partially through the thickness of the target, so that it is not exposed on the face thereof, the frangible material eXtefnding over the pin and protecting it from being directly hit by a bullet. This ensures that even when the target is hit directly over the pin, the target will break first, the piece to which the target is fixed falling with the pin and preventing the latter from being driven into the wall. i

In that form of the invention shown in Figure 4, the details of construction are the same as that of the modification previously described, the only difference being that the Y pin instead of being centrally located, is eccentrically positioned with respect to the target so that the latter may be said to be suspended from the wall. This form of the invention has the advantage that a greater proportion of the mass of the target lies below the pin than above it, so that the attachment of the pin to the wall is more stable and on that account a somewhat shorter pin may be employed. v

It is apparent from the above description that the invention although simple is invested with a number of advantages growing out of the use of the device as a target and which are new and inobvious with respect to somewhat similar devices used for other purposes.

What I claim is:

Target comprising a thin wooden plate cut cross grain With the edges of the grain presented in its front face, and e headless pin imbedded part Way only in the thickness of said pla-te having a portion projecting from the rear face of said plate of a. length just sulicient to give the target a slight hold when the pin is stuck into a vertical surface,

In testimony whereof I affix my signature.

ARTHUR R. STGVVELL. 

